Creston Clarke
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Creston Clarke was an American stage and silent film actor active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Creston Clarke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2550440 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Creston Clarke Context triple: [Way Down East, stars, Creston Clarke]
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A.
Stanton Carlisle
Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally conflicted carnival worker-turned-conman at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s neo-noir psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley" (2021).
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B.
Rennie Wilford
Rennie Wilford is the protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Bodily Harm," a travel journalist whose trip to a Caribbean island becomes a harrowing exploration of political unrest and personal vulnerability.
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C.
Curt Fraser
Curt Fraser is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach best known as the first head coach in Atlanta Thrashers franchise history.
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D.
Hamilton Luske
Hamilton Luske was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated features.
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E.
Ian Hendrickson-Smith
Ian Hendrickson-Smith is an American jazz saxophonist and flutist known for his work as a versatile session musician and performer with various prominent bands and artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Creston Clarke Target entity description: Creston Clarke was an American stage and silent film actor active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Stanton Carlisle
Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally conflicted carnival worker-turned-conman at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s neo-noir psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley" (2021).
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B.
Rennie Wilford
Rennie Wilford is the protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Bodily Harm," a travel journalist whose trip to a Caribbean island becomes a harrowing exploration of political unrest and personal vulnerability.
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C.
Curt Fraser
Curt Fraser is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach best known as the first head coach in Atlanta Thrashers franchise history.
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D.
Hamilton Luske
Hamilton Luske was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated features.
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E.
Ian Hendrickson-Smith
Ian Hendrickson-Smith is an American jazz saxophonist and flutist known for his work as a versatile session musician and performer with various prominent bands and artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Clarke ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
silent cinema
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Creston ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
silent film performances in the early 20th century
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stage performances in the late 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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silent film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Creston Clarke Description of subject: Creston Clarke was an American stage and silent film actor active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
1920 film Way Down East